Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
While I wouldn’t say that I spoke to soon (re: “Poor Malkovich“), perhaps the situation bears some additional prudence to fully explore the options for remedy and repair. After all, it should not be necessary to replace that iMac G5. So let’s put all the cards out there. Firstly – what the hell is going […]
Recently it became apparent that our trusty iMac G5 (a.k.a., “Malkovich”) may not be long in its continued operation. The iMac seems to have shut itself off randomly on at least two occasions over the past week or so – one minute it’s chugging along, playing music and/or exporting photos from Aperture and the next […]
Recently, I downloaded the OmniGraphSketcher public beta to give it a quick and dirty trial. As you may have noticed, I can be a bit of a graph/visualization nerd. The first screencast 1 of OmniGraphSketcher made it look super easy to use and the output was (visually) very appealing. In my first trial run, I […]
My first ever Ebay score, the Canon EF-S 17-85mm lens (featuring image stabilization) was a much coveted item around here 1. It had come highly recommended and seemed to be a great complement to my beloved 50mm prime 2 and a perfect replacement for the 18-55mm kit lens that shipped with the XTi. Initial, first-night […]
Mostly for Pete, a follow-up to a thread on Facebook today… The co-worker’s terminal font (click to make big): Now I used to have a big fat crush on Andale Mono but how could that be easy on the eyes? The painfully mucky tilde, the one digit and the lowercase L practically indistinguishable! And at […]
Partly for my own enjoyment and partly to respond to Tweets from two friends of mine, I’d like to write a little bit about my experience with the Git source control manager. Before we get too far in this process though, let’s get one thing out in the open. I’m probably the least technical developer out […]
While banging through the home-stretch of Ortho 1.0, I decided to give MacRabbit’s Espresso editor a try. I’m “between” editors right now – feeling no special love or loyalty to any one text editor – and noting Espresso’s public beta, I decided it was worthy of some exploration. THE SHORT VERSION: I liked it alright […]
Almost exactly two years ago, I first unveiled Ortho, the home-rolled custom WordPress theme that you see here. It is named in part after the character Ortho Stice from David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest and is also a vaguely tongue-in-cheek, slightly punny nod to the squared-off corners that graced the original design. With this […]
Perhaps this is stating the obvious but amongst today’s clamor of Apple’s miscellaneous product updates 1 was a related, relatively silent update: the new AirPort Extreme. It’s an important but understated move that acknowledges two other products which did not get updated today: the iPhone and the tv. Each model in the desktop line got […]